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Dorothea Dix
Dorthea Dix is credited for creating the first mental asylums. In 1854, a bill was passed that would allow land to be set aside for mentally disturbed patients. Also, she served as a Superintendent for the nurses working during the Civil War under the Union Army. -
Mary Ann Bickerdyke
Mary Ann Breckerdyke became known as "Mother Bickerdyke" because she served as a nurse for the Union soldiers during the American Civil War. She declared to do everything she could to matintain care for her soldiers. -
Linda Richards
In 1873, Linda Richards was creadited for bring the first student to enoll and to graduate rom the nursing program. She also is known for establishing the first systm for maintaining individual patient records. -
Clara Barton
Clara Barton began working with the ICRC overseas in 1873, and in 1881 she became the presdent of the american branch known as American Red Cross. Barton also provided supplies for wounded soldiers in the First Battle of Bull Run back in 1862. -
Isabel Hampton Robb
She is recognized for her contribution to the system of nursing by applying a grading policy in nursing for students. Also, she was a founder of the American nursing theory. -
Lavinia Dock
One of her major contributions to medicine was her early fighting for the use of birth control during World War 1. Addiionally, in 1893 she partnered with Mary Nuttng and Isabel Hampton Robb to establish the American Society of Superintendents of Training for Nurses Schools in the US and Canada. She placed the knowledge she possessed about nursing into four volumes of A History of Nursing (first set in 1907, and second set in 1912). -
Mary Adelaide Nutting
In 1895, Mary Adelaide Nutting presented an indepth analysis regarding student nurse employment which secured her permission to develop a new three-year curriculum, schoarships, In 1900, she helped found the American Journal of Nursing. -
Lillian Wald
Lillin Wad was a fouder of the Henry Street Settlement which provides health care services for immigrants and the poor. Also, in 1903 she successfully persuaded an insurance company to provide free visiting nurses to their health care holders. Sh strived to improve health condition for the people, including the African-Americans who at this time were experiencing mass lynchings and beatings. -
Mary Eliza Mahoney
in 1905, Mary Eliza Mahoney became the first African American to become a registered nurse in the United States. In 1908, she cofounded the National Association of colored graduated nurses. -
Annie Goodrich
Annie Goodrich is credited as being the creator of the army of nursing which started in 1918. She was also the first dean and professor for Yale University of Nursing from 1923-1934. -
Margaret Sanger
In 1921, Margaret Sanger founded the American Birth Control League. In the years that followed, Saner traveled around the world educating people on the facts of birth control and its use. In the 1960s, the birth control pill became available and Sanger advocated mothers all over to use this pill. -
Mary Breckinridge
In 1925, Mary established the Frontier Nursing Service which provided health care in the Appalachian Mountains. The American College of Midwives credits Mary as "the first to bring nurse midwifery to the United States." -
Ida V. Moffett
In 1946, Ida was appointed to the Alabama State Board of Nurses' Examiners and Registration by Govenor Chauncey Sparks. Currently at the University of Samford, the Nursing program is named in her honor as she helped to establish the first Baptist School of Nursing in Birmingham, Alabama. -
Lillian Holland Harvey
In 1948, under her leaderships, the first baccalaureate of nursing program was established in Alabama. Additionally, in 1978 she was named the first Dean at Tuskegee University. -
Hildegard Peplau
Hildegard Peplau was known as "the mother of psychiatric nursing." As an executive director and later as president, She was the only nurse to ever serve on the ANA. In 1952, she published her interpersonal relations model which views nursing as educative and therapeutic. -
Madeleine Leininger
Madeleine Leininger was a theorist who discussed what it ment to care and provide care. She began being published in 1961 and she is crdited with the development of transcultural nursing. -
Virginia Henderson
She developed the nursing definition that states, "nursing's role is to assist the individual wether they be sick or well to carry out those activities." She is credited as being the first full-time nurse in Virginia. -
Dorothea Orem
Dorothea Orem was a pominent theorist for Nursing. In1971, she published her first selection of ideas in Nursing: Concepts of Practice. She theorized on the issue of Self-Care and Self-Care defict. -
Jean Watson
Jean Watson is known for her theory that the central focus of nursing is caring. She also stated that nurse behaviors are defined as 10 carative factors. -
Martha Rogers
Martha Rogers is credited with developing the Science of Unitary Human Beings which defines nursing as an art and science that is both humanistic and humanitarian.
